Improvement in shifting cleats, or ring-bolts



tnitd tant A @anni @attire JOHN E. MURRAY, OF PROVINCETOWN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, Z. D. RICH, OF SOMER- VILLE, AND JOSEPH HALL, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters PatentNo. 90,952, dated .Tune 8, 1869.

IMPOV-EMENTIN SHIITING- CLEATS, 0R. RING-BOLTS, c.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

, T 0 au whom it ma?! Comer "-1 or wrench, which, when in serted into the plug by screw- Beit known that I, JOHN E. MURRAY, of Provinceing the cleat or ring-bolt, screws the plug into the town, in the county of Barnstable, and State of Massocket, and' thus I have a cleat or ring-holt which sachusetts, have invented a new and useful Shifting can be shifted at a moments notice, as required for Cleat, Ring-Bolt, Hook, 85e.; and I do hereby declare use. that the following,r is a full, clear, and exact description In the annexed drawing, making part of this speciof the construct-ion and operation of the same, referfieat-ion---- ence being had to the accompanying drawing, forming v A represents the socket, with an outside or male a part of this specification. l screw, with an aperture in the head thereof, said aper- This invention consists in providing a shifting-cleat, ture to be closed at the bottom and to have an inside ring-bolt, &c. or female screw, and when not required for use to be I have a metal-socket, permanently fastened into closed with 'screw-plug B. For the more securely vessels deck, or where it may he required for use, the fastening my socket A, I attach a burr or nut, C head thereof to be left ilush with the vessels deck, to be screwed into the foot of the socket A. with a'screw aperture for inserting the ring-bolt, cleat, The cleat D and the ring-bolt E to be abutted by 86e., as they may be required for use, said screw-apera screw to the screw-plug B, as required for use.

ture to he closed by a screw-plug when not required 0n the foot of the cleat D, ring-bolt E, &c., is a for use. bite or wrench, F, by which means the plug B, hav- This is an invention that has been long desired, and ing an aperture, is forced to the foot of the aperture is particularly adapted for use on ship-board. in the socket A by screwing in the cleat D or ring- I will proceed to describe its construction and operholt E, &c.; and thereby the cleat D or ring-bolt E,

ation. Ste., is firmly abutted, thus forming a cleat or ring- I construct my socket, as shown in the accompanybolt that can he shifted at a moments notice.

ing drawing, of metal, with an outside or male screw, What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure with an aperture inthe head thereof, said aperture to by Letters Patent, s

be closed at the bottom and to have an inside or female A shifting cleat, ring-holt, or hook, composed of screw, and, when not required for use, to be closed with socket A, screw-plug burr or nut C, cleat D, or

fa screw-plug. For more securely fastening the socket, ring-bolt E, all constructed, arranged, and operated I attach a burr or nut, to be screwed into the foot of in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

my socket. JOHN E. MURRAY.

This socket is to be permanently screwed into the vessels deck, the head thereof to be left flush, the Witnesses: v

cleat, ring-bolt, &c., to be abutted by a screw, as re- CEAS. H. PATTEE,

quired for use, and having, on the foot of each, a bite, J. K. TYLER. 

